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Imagine this dismall planet dotted with decrepit nuclear plants, even as the societies that are supposed to keep them safe collapse either of their own accord, or due to interminable warfare.

When deciding on the wisdom of adopting a technology that will shape our fate for the next century you don't condition on the best (or even expected) scenario, you condition on the worst plausible scenario.

For a long as we haven't solved our obvious and serious socio-economic pathologies it is actually safer to keep burning carbon. At least that damage is in-principle reversible.